* The second annual [http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~seelig/synthbio/ UW Workshop on Synthetic Biology] is on Monday, Jan 21, 2013.

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* New grant from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) as part of the new Semiconductor Synthetic Biology program (SSB): [https://www.ee.washington.edu/news/2013/UWEE_grant_from_SRC_SSB.html finite state machines in living cells].

* New NSF grant with Georg Seelig on [http://www.ee.washington.edu/news/2013/klavins_seelig_NSF_award_molecular_programming.html Molecular Programming], in a big project led by Erik Winfree at Caltech. (9/2013)

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* New paper in PNAS: [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/21/1205693109.abstract Fine-tuning gene networks using simple sequence repeats]! Read also the [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/27/1214118109.full.pdf+html commentary] by Prindle and Hasty. The paper is highlighted on [http://www.genomeweb.com/blog/week-pnas-180 GenomeWeb] too! (8/2012)

* Sonia Singhal (Kerr Lab) and Rob Egbert made a cool movie of E. coli exposed to a burst of ampicillin in our ONIX system. The CellAsic company has put it on their web page [http://www.cellasic.com/ONIX_bacteria.html#Movies here]. Click on "Antibiotic Burst". Poor little cells. (8/2012)

* The Klavins Lab bids farewell to Rob Egbert, who is now a postdoc in Adam Arkin's lab at UC Berkeley. (7/2013)

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* The first paper on [http://depts.washington.edu/soslab/gro/ gro] is accepted to ACS Synthetic Biology: [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb300034m Specification and simulation of multicelled behaviors]. (7/2012)

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* Congratulations to Kyle Havens who is now at [http://www.pregenen.com/ Pregenen]. (7/2013)